I Love her

LOL to you sir

"Since Azar NAfisi forwarded one of the most accurate translations by Dick Davis ..."

How does that make my point any less valid? She's thought to be a BRILLIANT Persian writer here in the West, so obviously they'd ask her to write a forward... That doesn't make this any less true --> "This was not enlightening... and her book was terrible... she spends the ENTIRE book gloating about herself and how she ~saved~ all the ~repressed~ young Iranians."

I haven't read the forward to Shahnameh... but does it go like... "myself and people like Ferdowsi are just ah-mah-zing ruh-tehrs. Also Ferdosi could improve based on some of my literary criticisms... if he were alive. enjoy the book"

For those of you who want to

For those of you who want to read: Go read the Shahnameh instead, or books from any of these legitimite Iranian authors who don't rely on Orientalist perceptions and denigration of others in order to get a point across:

On this topic: This was not

On this topic: This was not enlightening... and her book was terrible... she spends the ENTIRE book gloating about herself and how she ~saved~ all the ~repressed~ young Iranians.

Is everyone drinking cool-aid? Self-serving people (like Makhmalbaf etc) take sides of whatever movement of the day they think can carry them. They see halos above their own heads and think everyone else believes it too.

More on Dabashi vs. Nafisi

"Rarely has an Oriental servant of a white-identified, imperial design managed to pack so many services to imperial hubris abroad and racist
elitism at home--all in one act. It is thus exceedingly important to
read Nafisi not just for her ideological services to the US imperial
designs globally, but, equally if not more important, for her
reactionary consequences inside the United States as well."

Of couse now that Dabashi has become "maghze-pesteie", he might have changed his opinions.